The Future of the Internet

Advertisement “In only a few short years, electronic computing systems have been invented and improved at a tremendous rate. But computers did not ‘just grow.’ They have evolved… They were born and they are being improved as a consequence of man’s ingenuity, his imagination… and his mathematics.” — 1958 IBM brochure The Internet is a medium that is evolving at breakneck speed. An illustration of a computer from a 1958 IBM promotional brochure titled ‘World of Numbers’ So what’s the next step in its evolution, and what’s the big picture? This article will offer in-depth analysis of a range of subjects — from realistic expectations stemming from current trends to some more imaginative speculations on the distant future. Security “Death of the Open Web”? Those words have an ominous ring for those of us who have a deep appreciation of the Internet as well as high hopes for its future. There is a growing sentiment that the open web is a fundamentally dangerous place. Security Solutions Freedom Mr.

Evolution of Change: Signs for the Future of Business | Smart Data Collective I like taking the time once in a while to tie different trends together, it just helps me focus on what's really happening now and helps me understand where things might be going. Taken individually there are some very interesting things happening in technology and business but when you link them together a picture starts to emerge that is almost staggering in depth and breadth of change potential. I was reading "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil the other day and a point jumped out at me that I think is extremely important when looking at change, whether you agree with Kurzweil's ideas on singularity or not. That concept is that technology growth or the growth of any evolutionary process is exponential, and is not linear or does not simply continue at current growth rates over time. In fact many evolutionary processes see double exponential growth, so in fact the growth of the exponent is exponential. So what are the individual changes or shifts that we are seeing? Big data

Zite sur iPad : génial et déjà polémique " La Social Newsroom Si l'iPad n'a toujours pas sauvé la presse (voir le long chemin qui attend "The Daily", le premier quotidien sur tablettes de Murdoch), il offre de belles perspectives pour les agrégateurs d'info. Depuis le lancement de la tablette, on a vu passer toute une flopée de ces "Google News" d'un nouveau genre qui ont de quoi énerver les éditeurs de presse... et ravir les lecteurs ! Après Flipboard et Pulse (pour les plus innovants), Zite est un magazine virtuel qui se connecte à votre compte Twitter et Google Reader afin de récupérer les contenus qui vous intéressent (les articles des médias auxquels vous êtes abonnés sur Google Reader et ceux partagés par vos amis sur Twitter). Comme vous n'avez pas le temps de lire tous les articles proposés par ces services, Zite vous propose très logiquement une hyper-sélection, en apprenant de votre comportement.

A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN Now that the Internet has exploded in popularity on a world wide scale, with a major component of its success (the World Wide Web) being developed at CERN, it seems a good time to look back and trace the history of the Internet at CERN. Even before the Web allowed Internet penetration in the most unexpected places, the presence of the Internet protocols at CERN had already encouraged their adoption not only in many other parts of Europe but also in such influential organizations as the ITU and ISO in Geneva. Another reason for writing this history today is that it is almost exactly ten years ago that CERN named me as its first "TCP/IP Coordinator". Another interesting element, apart from the rapidity of change, is the factor of accident or coincidence, often traceable to a personal event or a meeting of one or two people in critical circumstances. In the Beginning - the 1970's In the beginning was - chaos. It was from around 1984 that the wind began to change.

Nieman Journalism Lab - Predictions for Journalism 2011 Smartphone growth, Murdoch’s Daily, and journalism for the poor: Predictions for mobile news in 2011 Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. One of the common threads through many of their predictions was mobile — the impact smartphones and tablets and apps will have on how news is reported, produced, distributed, and consumed. (Not to mention how it’s paid for.) Here are Vivian Schiller, Keith Hopper, Jakob Nielsen, Alexis Madrigal, Michael Andersen, Richard Lee Colvin, Megan McCarthy, David Cohn, and David Fanning on what 2011 will bring for the mobile space. After two decades of saying that “this is the year of mobile,” 2011 really will be the year of mobile. My wild prediction: 2011 will be the year of media initiatives that serve poor and middle-income people. For 20 years, almost all native Internet content has been made for the niche interests — often the professional interests — of people who make more than the median household income of $50,000 or so. 1. 2. 3. For Frontline it is the bright hope.

A Little History of the World Wide Web See also How It All Started presentation materials from the W3C 10th Anniversary Celebration and other references. from 1945 to 1995 Vannevar Bush writes an article in Atlantic Monthly about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called a Memex, for memory extension, which could make and follow links between documents on microfiche 1960s Doug Engelbart prototypes an "oNLine System" (NLS) which does hypertext browsing editing, email, and so on. Ted Nelson coins the word Hypertext in A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate. 20th National Conference, New York, Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. Andy van Dam and others build the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS in 1967. While consulting for CERN June-December of 1980, Tim Berners-Lee writes a notebook program, "Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything", which allows links to be made between arbitrary nodes. March "Information Management: A Proposal" written by Tim BL and circulated for comments at CERN (TBL). May April

Qwiki's iPad Moment Is Coming (TCTV) Ever since Qwiki won the last TechCrunch Disrupt in September, it’s been working on an iPad app. In fact, one of its overexcited developers showed me a peek back then. Well, it’s come along way since then, and Qwiki is currently working on the finishing touches before submitting a real app to the iTunes store sometime in the next few weeks. Qwiki founder and CEO Doug Imbruce dropped by my office today to give me a preview. In many ways, Qwiki was built for the iPad. The iPad app will also have “a very interesting geography feature,” Imbruce hints. And just for fun, let’s see that backstage video from Disrupt of the original iPad prototype.

Netexplorateur 2011 : quelle évolution pour la société ... C'est un des moments clés du forum Netexplorateur : la présentation de l'étude Netexploratrend par le sociologue Bernard Cathelat. Il dévoile ses "scénarios tendanciels de la révolution socio-numérique". "Nous ne cherchons pas à déceler les vedettes récompensées aujourd'hui, mais de discerner des tendances générales qui semblent se dégager de ces propositions d'innovation. Nous observons un retournement à 180 degrés du monde numérique. Il y a peu, nous étions face à un alter-monde. Aujourd'hui nous allons vers un nouveau monde : la virtu-réalité. Dans les années 2000, on a vu une première vague avec une évasion du monde réel vers le monde virtuel, un "alter-web". Dès 2003, on a continué à s'évader, mais en groupe : le réseautage. En 2008, on a vu une première grande évolution par rapport à cet alter-monde : le "web to world". En 2010, ces deux mondes se sont mêlés plus encore pour rendre "intelligents" des objets de la vie quotidienne. Cette année que voyons-nous ? Jusqu'où va-t-on ?

Presse Citron - Navigation internet : l’iPad devant Linux aux USA Vendredi 22 avril Internet mobile - 22 avril 2011 :: 10:41 :: Par Eric Selon une récente étude statistique de StatCounter portant sur Avril 2011, l’iPad serait déjà passé devant Linux en tant que système d’exploitation permettant d’accéder au web. Attention sujet à troll ( iPad et Linux dans le même titre, oui je suis maso), ne nous énervons pas, c’est bientôt le week-end Selon une récente étude statistique de StatCounter portant sur Avril 2011, l’iPad serait déjà passé devant Linux en tant que système d’exploitation permettant d’accéder au web. Au-delà de la comparaison iPad vs. ( source ) Fondateur et rédacteur en chef de Presse-citron, Éric est blogueur, éditeur de contenus numériques. Tags: iPad , Linux

HTC refuse de cloner l'iPad - technotes HTC a pris son temps. Après Samsung, LG et Motorola, le fabricant taïwanais est l'un des derniers (on attend encore Sony Ericsson) à présenter sa tablette tactile, la HTC Flyer. "Nous avons pris le temps d'tudier la manière dont les gens utilisent des tablettes. Je crois que l'attente en valait la peine", a affirmé mardi le PDG de HTC, Peter Chou. Avec son écran tactile de 7 pouces, la HTC Flyer est à peu près du même format que la Samsung Galaxy Tab, mais semble plus robuste grâce à son dos en aluminium et sa structure monocoque. Vu la proximité entre HTC et Google, la tablette HTC Flyer tourne sans grande surprise sous Android. La tablette HTC Flyer embarque en effet l'interface HTC Sense, qui remplace la présentation classique d'Android lorsque l'on oriente l'appareil à l'horizontal. Mais la vraie originalité vient du stylet. Le reste des caractéristiques est un peu plus conventionnel.